Vacations sweet vacations / Ferias doce ferias

The worst moment of vacations is coming back to work...especially from this one where Antonio has become the center of everything, the weather is perfect and we're close to the ones we love the most...It really brings a wish to come back and live in Brazil!!! One day...

He was baptized last Sunday and we had an amazing weekend with everybody around...BBQ, beer, family, jokes and the best landscape and weather!!!

We just don't want to go back!

A pior parte das ferias eh ter de voltar ao trabalho...especialmente destas ferias onde Antonio eh o centro das atencoes, o clima esta perfeito e nos estamos perto de quem amamos mais...Nos da vontade de voltar a viver no Brazil de novo...Um dia...

Ele foi batizado domingo passado e nos tivemos um fim de semana inesquecivel com todo mundo ao redor...churrasco, cerveja, familia, piadas e uma bela paisagem e clima!!!

Nao queremos mais voltar!

Antonio's first trip / Primeira viagem do Antonio

This week, we will be flying down to Brazil to show Antonio to all his family. They can't wait to finally meet him and we are aprehensive to get on a plane with him. Luggages, checkpoints, x-rays and an 8-hour flight give us the creeps...

This week he'll have his first vaccines shots and then he'll be fine to travel. We'll stay for about 3 weeks and hopefully we'll see everybody we want to. On March 25th he will be baptized and his godparents are Renata (Rogerio's sister) and Thiago (Claudia's brother). We'll have tons of photos to publish and you will love that.

As of now, he's around 11 pounds and chubbier than ever...He's eating more - which makes Claudia's life more difficult - and consequently pooping more too. Only today he's pooped for 7 times!

On the photo above, the only family member who already knows Antonio very well. She's got here 2 days before he was born and is going back with us. This is grandma Regina (Claudia's mother) who has helped us a lot and made this beginning of life way easier than it looks like! We will miss her and so will Antonio!

Esta semana vamos ao Brasil pra mostrar o Antonio pra toda a familia. Eles nem podem esperar pra conhece-lo e nos estamos bem apreensivos pra pegar m aviao com nosso bebezinho. Bagagens, raios-x e um voo de 8 horas nos deixa assustados...

Ele tambem vai tomar a maioria das vacinas e entao estara pronto pra viajar. Nos vamos ficar umas 3 semanas e se Deus quiser vamos ver a todos. Dia 25 de marco, Antonio vai ser batizado e os padrinhos sao tia Renata e tio Thiago. Nos vamos ter um monte de fotos que voce vao adorar!

Hoje, ele ja tem quase 5 kilos and esta cada vez mais gordinho...Tem comido bastante - o que deixa a vida da Clau bem mais dificil - e logo tem feito bastante coco. So hoje, ele fez uns 7!

Na foto acima, a unica da familia a conhece-lo pessoalmente. Ela chegou aqui uns 2 dias antes dele nascer e volta conosco. Ela eh a vovo Regina (mae da Clau) e que nos ajudou muito a fez nossa experiencia muito mais facil do que parece ter sido! Nos vamos ficar com saudades e o Antonio tambem!

Beijos a todos,

Rogerio, Claudia & Antonio

Setting examples / Dando exemplo

Antonio is so cute as he gets a litte bit chubbier that we can't resist to him! We kiss him all the time!

Last Sunday, our dear team (Palmeiras) was playing our biggest rivals and we were on a pre-game session wearing proper clothes for the game, as you can see above.

As expected we destroyed Corinthians on a 3 to 0 game and went celebrating. Daddy on a nice glass of wine and AC on a nice 15-minute latch-on session.

Setting examples must happen earlier than you think!

Antonio esta tao lindo e ficando tao gordinho que nos nao resistimos! O beijamos toda hora.

Domingo passado, nosso querido time (Palmeiras) jogou com nossos maiores rivais e nos fizemos uma sessao pre-jogo vestindo roupas a carater.

Como esperado, destruimos o Corinthians e fomos celebrar. Papai tomou um bom vinho e Antonio uma boa mamada de 15 minutos.

Dar exemplo tem de comecar desde cedo!

Time flies / O tempo voa

The best exercise to understand how fast time flies is to have a child. Antonio is growing fast, outgrowing clothes and developing his senses on a daily basis. Besides that, he already started smiling, being awake longer, having less colics, eating more and more, holding his head and body straight up longer and already is pronouncing some of his words (coos, boos, etc). He's socializing, comunicating! At this picture he's trying to figure out the little rabbit on his bouncer!
Last weekend we spent a small fortune on an eletric breastpump so we can start introduce bottles and Claudia can get more comfortable when she needs to go back to work.
We'll save a lot of money avoiding formula and Antonio will get the best food for babies: Breast food!
We'll go Brazil in March and baptize Antonio there too. Grandma Regina will return and grandma Maria will come with us for a couple of months. The idea is to avoid a day-care for at least 6 months!

A melhor coisa pra saber como o tempo voa eh ter um filho. Antonio esta crescendo rapido, perdendo roupinhas e desenvolvendo os sentidos diariamente. Alem disso, ja comecou a dar os primeiros sorrisos, ficar acordado por mais tempo, ter menos colica, comer mais e segurar a cabeca e o corpo reto por mais tempo e tambem ja comecou a pronunciar suas palavras (gugus e dadas)! Ja se comunica e na foto acima ele esta tentando saber qual que eh a do coelhinho de sua cadeirinha!
Fim de semana passado compramos uma bomba pra tirar leite eletrica, pra que ele possa comecar a se acostumar com a mamadeira e pra Claudia ficar mais tranquila quando tiver que voltar ao trabalho. Nos vamos economizar muito em formula e Antonio podera continuar tendo a melhor alimentacao possivel: Leite materno!
Nos vamos pro Brasil em marco pra batiza-lo. Vovo Regina fica e vovo Maria vem conosco por uns meses. A ideia eh evitar a creche ate uns seis meses!

Beijos a todos,
RC, CC & AC